December 1, 2013

An anti-government protester runs through a cloud of tear gas during clashes with police near the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. Police fired several rounds of tear gas near Government House, after a chaotic night of street fighting elsewhere in the capital during which two people were killed and at least 45 wounded.

Motorcycles that were seized at the police headquaters in Sana'a, Yemen, after their owners violated a 15-day ban on motorcycles. Yemen began enforcing a temporary ban on motorbikes in the capital to prevent "shoot and scoot" attacks as al-Qaida suspects on a motorbike elsewhere killed an army officer.

Scottish Fire and Rescue services examine a section of a police helicopter after crashing into the Clutha Bar in Glasgow, Scotland. Emergency workers sifted through wreckage for survivors from the crowded pub that killed at least eight people and injured more than two dozen.

Protesters throw stones as they clash with police at the presidential office in Kyiv, Ukraine. As many as 100,000 demonstrators chased away police to rally in the center of the capital, defying a ban on protests in Independence Square, in the biggest show of anger over the president's refusal to sign an agreement with the European Union.

Emergency workers gather at the site of a Metro-North train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York. At least four people were killed and 63 injured, including 11 critically, when the suburban train derailed, with at least five cars from the Metro-North train sliding off the tracks, officials said.